Here's what Sir Mix-A-Lot has to say about claims that Blake Lively was being 'racist' on Instagram

Blake Lively got herself in hot water earlier this week on Instagram. She posted a split photo of herself at the Cannes Film Festival – one photo of her face and the other of her from behind.

She captioned the photo with lyrics from Sir Mix-A-Lot's song Baby Got Back (I Like Big Butts). She wrote, "LA face with an Oakland booty", which basically refers to a woman whose face looks like she is from Los Angeles (primarily white), while her behind looks like she is from neighbouring Californian city Oakland, which has historically been a poorer area, with a high African-American population.

A post shared by Blake Lively (@blakelively) on May 17, 2016 at 5:04pm PDT

People were quick to slam Blake for being 'racist', but the man himself – Sir Mix-A-Lot - has jumped to her defence, saying the 1992 track was never meant to be about a specific race, but about different beauty standards needing to be acknowledged in the media.

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He told the Hollywood Reporter: "That song was written with African-American women in mind, but trust me, there are white women with those curves everywhere, and they were once considered fat. And that's what the song was about. It wasn't about some race battle.

"So I wrote this song not as a battle between the races. I wrote the song because I wanted Cosmopolitan, I wanted all these big magazines to kind of open up a little bit and say, 'Wait a minute, this may not be the only beautiful.' I mean, I don't look at Serena Williams as fat. I don't think she has an ounce of fat anywhere on her. I didn't want there to be one voice. I wanted to say, 'Hey, us over here! What we feel like is this.'"